Word: gillete
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gericke; La Source, Ballet Suite, by Delibes, including Scarf Dance, Love Scene, Variation, and Circassion Dance; Scheherazade, Finale by Rimsky-Korsakov; Large by Handel (Solo violin--J. Theodorowicz, Harp, Organ, and Strings); Dance by Debussy, arranged by Ravel; "Of Thee I Sing" Selection, by Gershwin, "Loin du Bal" by Gillet; "Pomp and Circumstance" by Elgar...
...official hostess") at the U. S. Embassy in Paris last week. Ambassador and Mrs. Walter Evans Edge assembled not the impotent dukes and counts of the beau monde but aristocrats of another sort, people whose names stand in France for economic power. Up from Lyons came M. Edmond Gillet, calm, wise, secretive "silk King of France.'' In bustled short and forceful M. Andre Homberg, bald but bewhiskered* president† of the French Line, of the Societe General (one of the largest French banks), high executive of the famed Compagnie Internationale des Wagon-lits. Came...
...fanfare of pressagentry saluted the sailing of a Dr. Paul Gillet of Paris* for Manhattan last week. Dr. Gillet is a nose-tickler, one who claims to cure all manner of ailments by touching a nasal nerve with a stylet and simultaneously gazing steadily into the patient's eyes...
...sense in nasal tickling, U. S. medicine at once uttered a warning. Irritation of the sympathetic system gives some relief in certain nervous disorders. Scientifically it is about on a par with the late Emile Coue's "Every day in every way I'm getting better." Dr. Gillet's master is Dr. Fernando Asuero, Spaniard who has been touring Europe and Latin America with the nose-tickling stunt...
...most significant duties which Master General Gillet has to perform in the U. S. are ineffable. He is a member of the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office. The purposes of that office are fundamental to Roman Catholicism. It defends the teaching of faith and morals. It censors and condemns "dangerous" books, and permits the special reading of such books. It dispenses priests from fasting before mass. It judges, as supreme court, all cases of mixed marriages. It judges heresy and all offenses leading to a suspicion of heresy. All members take an oath of secrecy, "the secret...